Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-17
TEXAS.
Judge Husbands Historical Sketch Cor
rected In Some Respects.

rected In Some Respects.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, June 9, 1887.
To the Editor of the Gazette
AS l am operating largely in Texas
lands, everything concerning the state is
of interest to me, snd beg to both add to
and subtract from the article in yours OF
the 18th ult., prepared by Judge W. L.
Husband for the Texas Advertiser.
the name Louisiana embraced land in
Alabama, west of the Preside, and on the
Gulf of Mexico, below latitude 81
north; also the states of Mississippi,
Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Texas,
Indian Territory, part of New Mexico,
part of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska
lows, part of Minnesota, Oregon, Dakota,
Montana, Idaho, Washington, and a
portion of Wyoming, and cost the United
States 27,267, 62l IS, paid to France.
international law had conceded this vast
territory TO France on the following
grounds, viz:
In l54l DeSoto reached the Mississippi
river.
In 1878 Father Marquette descended
the Mississippi 10 its mouth.
In 1850 LsSslle descended the Missis-
sippi and took possession of the country
adjacent to it in the name of Louis XIV
of France, and named it Louisiana
l proceed now to show that several
exchanges of land were made by royal
claimants, and how Texas became 8 part
of Mexico.
l. Spain held Florida by discovery on
Palm Sunday, March u, 1912.
In 1876 Spain coded Florida to Great
Britain in exchange for the island Of
Cuba.
On November 3, 1852, France ceded to
SPAN in "full property, purely and SIM
ply, and without any exceptions, the
whole country known by the name Of
Louisiana" which of course included
Texas, and thus she for the first time had
possession of Texas.
On February IL, 1868, Spain coded to
Great Britain 81 Of her possessions east
of the Mississippi river.
In 1888 Great Britain coded to Spain
the provinces of East Florida, for which
she had exchanged Cuba in 1876, and
also ceded West Florida, which she had
acquired from Spain in 1868.
On October l, 1900, Spain transferred
the province of Louisiana back TO France;
this transfer included Texas.
On April 80, 1903, France sold the col
ony or province of Louisiana to the
United States; which ssle included
Texas.
On February %, 1919, Spain coded to
the United States East Florida and West
Florida, and by the same treaty the
United States relinquished TO Spain the
country afterwards known as Texas, and
thus for the second time Texas became =
Spanish possession, and was then an
neXed to and became part of New Spain
(MexiCol.
France never ceded,her claim to Texas
due to the discovery of DeSOtO, Mar
quette and by La Sale in 1902, and col
Onizstion, February Is, 1866. at Mata-
gorda bay. In 1876, Marquis Laguna,
ViCeroy of Mexico, sent an expedition to
capture the country, but this was three
years after Marquette had descended the
Mississippi to it's mouth. In 1891, Don
Domingo Texan was appointed governor
of Coahuila and Texas under Spain, but
this was subsequent to the Matagorda
bay settlement.
The United States cid not remain quies-
cent as to the government of Texas by
Spain and subsequently by Mexico from
1903 until 1892, for;
l. October %, 1908, the United States
in Congress assembled passed an act to
enable the President to take possession
of the whole province of Louisiana, which
included Texas.
2. The commissioners, William G. c..
Claiborne and James wilkinson, took
possession of the said whole province on
December 20, 1883, by public proclama-
ton at New Orleans and hosting our
flag.
5. In 1919, February %, the United States
ceded to Spain the whole of Texas mp to
its present eastern boundary, and subse-
quent to that time up, to the annexation
of Texas to the Union, had no rights of
jurisdiction over the country.
am not crittcising Judge Husbands
able article; am only getting in some of
the dates in an accurate manner.
JOHN W. BERKS.